
ALTICE 5G CHALLENGE AVEIRO
Altice Portugal & Tech City Aveiro award the 5G Challenge to MoodMe and other 9 European finalists.
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How is 5G helping cities in their challenges?
After thorough assessment of the projects submitted by 59 candidates from 26 different countries, the finalists of the “Aveiro Urban Challenges” and “Aveiro 5G Challenges” programmes are announced. Both activities aim to select and reward disruptive technological innovations and solutions.
Each finalist of the “Aveiro Urban Challenge” received 20.000,00€ to finance the development of the projects. Within the next months the finalists will develop their projects and also have access to training and mentoring sessions promoted by Beta-i. In October 2021 we will have the Final Pitch with the final presentation of the five solutions. In October 2021 we will have the Final Pitch with the final presentation of the five solutions.
Aveiro 5G Challenges
The “Aveiro 5G Challenges” is delivered in partnership with Altice Labs will reward solutions and products supported by 5G technology, allowing candidates to use the 5G infrastructure installed in the living lab of the city of Aveiro, to develop and scale their solutions while having access to technical mentoring from Altice Labs and Ericsson. Candidates will also have training and mentoring sessions promoted by Beta-i.
This edition received a total of 29 applications from all over the world, e.g. India and Kenya. Of the ten most disruptive projects in the area of 5G selected to the next stage half are Portuguese and the others are from Germany, Belgium (MoodMe! ), Croatia and the United States of America.